I have always used gstat -a and then multiplied the page count by the
page size (we use 8k) which seemed to be the correct size...

-steve

PenWin wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I would like to reduce the size of my Firebird 1.5 database. In order to do
> that I need to know on which tables I should focus. Is there some way to
> find out how much space is a table and its associated metadata (such as
> indexes) taking up? I thought I could get at least the data size (not index
> size) by reading a number of pages from RDB$PAGES and multiplying it with
> page size, but the results seem to be way off ("SELECT count(*) FROM
> rdb$pages" only lists about 600 pages for a 700+ MB database with page size
> of 4 KB). Is there some better way? I only need to do this once or twice, so
> a standalone application that would list this information for me would be
> just fine, although I would prefer to be able to read this information from
> the database from my application.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pepak
>
>